2ndRyan
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 10, 2005 23:26:12 GMT -5
From one former inmate of Ryan Hall to another, Happy Birthday!
I enjoy your posts on all the boards.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 9, 2005 10:40:41 GMT -5
1. Pat Ewing 2. Sleepy Floyd 3. Perry McDonald 4. Reggie Williams 5. John Duren (Ronnie Perry- do you remember him?) 5. b Charles Smith
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 2, 2005 15:08:35 GMT -5
Esh and even more so Lappas don't belong on this list-I think the author might have stopped at eight.
Perhaps two other lists which might be interesting are
1. Coaches who followed icons and couldn't stop the slide or keep the ride going (Lappas and Esh perhaps belong here) and
2. Icons who stayed too long (e.g. Digger, Gene Keady etc.)
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Post by 2ndRyan on Aug 1, 2005 14:49:59 GMT -5
i would echo the votes for R. Williams '87, Mutombo and Billy Martin
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jul 28, 2005 14:10:41 GMT -5
I think the choice of SU(cks) and Pitt was deliberate.
Georgetown and Nova are not 1-A in football. Notre Dame is, but prefers to remain independent in that sport.
I think USF has visions (delusions) of Final Four and an Orange Bowl invitation.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jun 27, 2005 22:39:21 GMT -5
Comcast SportsNet (philadelphia) had a tape of an Iverson high school game-may have been Virginia State Championship. I recall a great punt return- he just outraced everybody to the end zone.
Same station also had footage of Donovan McNabb playing hoops for SUcks
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 15, 2005 10:08:52 GMT -5
I believe that Calhoun is on record as refusing to schedule BC now that they are OOC
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 12, 2005 10:17:05 GMT -5
Re Villanova and 1-A football- where would they play? Villanova has the same type of paranoid neighbors as Georgetown. I don't see how an expanded or new on campus stadium would ever fly. You alluded to the sorry state of Temple football- and I think the administration at "Nova should contemplate how they'd have more success filling the Linc than Temple did the Vet.
As to the future of "basketball" schools like Georgetown and Villanova, there will always be similar institutions- St John's, DePaul, Marquette, Providence with access to basketball talent that will find a way to be competitive nationally. In a world of scholarship limitations and sophomores going pro, it only takes one or two players around whom a decent team and be built.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 5, 2005 14:11:41 GMT -5
after Georgetown I eventually spent business school in Charlottesville and had to swallow 2 years of that rotten league- the arrogance and sense of entitlement were stifling.
my favorite ACC moment will always be the '77 title game and Dean going to the Four Corners against Marquette too early. Take that, you over-blown, over-rated, over-coached collection of prima-donnas.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 7, 2005 12:33:55 GMT -5
Big East Championship 1987
Georgetown had Reggie Williams, a 6'4" center whose name I can't even remember and a bunch of other role-players. Syracuse had Rony Seikaly, Derrick Coleman and Sherman Douglas.
Georgetown leads wire-to-wire and wins 69-59.
That team is beaten in Elite Eight by Providence w/Billy Donovan.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 5, 2005 17:51:16 GMT -5
Where's this hack been?
Marquette and DePaul are clearly programs on the rise. St. John's once it digs out will be good again. There'll always be city kids that decide to stay home and play. Once we starting mining the DC talent lode again, we will be at least respectable and some years quite good.
That bozo is right about one thing- if the basketball schools go their own way, they keep the Big East name. I suggest this dork name his dream conference 3M (Mediocre Mid-Major).
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Post by 2ndRyan on Dec 22, 2004 22:37:38 GMT -5
I would add my vote for another Jesuit school.
Holy Cross or St. Joseph's might be good early season match-ups year-in and year-out.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Dec 13, 2004 13:29:37 GMT -5
December of 1973 during finals
A group of us were huddled in somebody's New South room playing Risk after midnight on a Saturday (we didn't go online then). One of our members wandered glassy-eyed to the window and announced "the Jesuit's house is on fire". He was ignored until the noise of heavy equipment and flashing lights brought us all to the window. The Jesuit residence sandwiched between Ryan and New South was in fact ablaze.
We watched for five minutes before going back to the utterly serious business of world conquest.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Oct 15, 2004 8:48:12 GMT -5
nice article but his father's first season was '72-73
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jun 9, 2005 14:39:19 GMT -5
I'm struck at how anemic Syracuse total is (below Providence) Never heard much about their women's b-ball team and I don't think they play baseball anymore. Is their lax team part of BE, or did they opt out the way Miami did in baseball?
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